[Malvern] Perl Mongers

[Phil Ironside]

Yo here are the directions


Event:   Technical Meeting
Date:    Wednesday 28th March 2007
Times:   from 7pm onwards (see below)
Venue:   Bennetts, 8 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, B2 5RS
Details: http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=tech-next

Directions for tonight:

The venue address is Bennetts, 8 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, B2 5RS.
Google maps [1] and Streetmap [2] references are available.

[1]
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=B2+5RS&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1
[2]
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=406843&y=286888&z=0&sv=B2+5RS&st=2&pc=B2+5RS&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

For those not familar with the location of the pub, below are more
precise directions.

By Train:

Exit New Street station by the main exit, and take the escalators up in
front of the turnstiles. At the top of the escalators turn left, and
follow the walkway round to the left, turning right into the main arcade
and down the pedestrian ramp onto New Street itself. Turn left onto New
Street, crossing Corporation Street at the bottom of the ramp, and head
along New Street until you reach a Barclays Bank on your right hand
side. Take the road up the hill (Bennett's Hill) to the right of
Barclay's Bank and Bennett's is on the left hand corner at the first
road junction. From New Street station this should take about 5-10
minutes to walk.

By Car (via M6):

Exit the M6 at junction 6 (Spaghetti Junction) and follow signs for the
city centre along the A38(M) Aston Expressway. As you approach the city
centre, stay on the main dual carriageway, and continue over the
flyover. After the flyover, take the first exit, up the hill past the
Thistle Hotel, to St Chad's Circus. Keep to the left and take the first
exit on the roundabout. Bear right and follow signs to Snow Hill
station. At the traffic light turn right and follow the road round,
turning onto Colmore Row at the next set of traffic lights. Drive past
Snow Hill station of you right and St Philips Cathedral on your right.
>From this point on street parking is available (free after 6pm), if you
can find it. See (Parking) below for further directions.

By Car (via M5/A38):

Follow the A38 into the city centre. From the McDonalds at the outer
ring road, continue along the A38 towards the city centre. bear right
though the underpass, and continue through the tunnel. After the tunnel,
take the first exit up to St Chad's Circus, and follow the roundabout
around to the right (4th exit), following signs for Snow Hill station.
At the traffic lights turn right and follow the road round, turning onto
Colmore Row at the next set of traffic lights. Drive past Snow Hill
station of you right and St Philips Cathedral on your right. From this
point on street parking is available (free after 6pm), if you can find
it. See (Parking) below for further directions.

Parking:

Suggested parking is to continue along Colmore Row, staright on at the
traffic lights. Parking is available on the right. Follow the road to
the end, and follow it around to the left onto Waterloo Street. Parking
is available on both sides of the street. At the next junction,
Bennett's is on the corner on your right hand side. You can either
continue on over the road junction, up towards the Cathedral and round
to the right back on to Colmore Row, or turn left up Bennett's Hill to
the traffic lights, across the traffic lights and take the second
turning right and continue along to the end, past the other road
junctons, turning right then right again back on to Colmore Row, all
along this route is on street parking.


If you have any problems, call me on 0771 401 6184. Hope you can make
it.

Cheers,
Barbie.
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